There’s been enough politics for the past few weeks. Here’s some good old geekiness for a change. Of course, thanks to the internet I don’t need to rent the Incredible Hulk DVD to see the deleted scene featuring Captain America’s frozen body. I still have to wait until 2011 to see Cap toss his shield around in his own movie, if our country is still around then–sorry, I’ll stop!!
Hey you guys, go check out superobamaworld.com! You too can play as the supreme presidential messiah in a Mario-esque Alaskan landscape. Watch out for pigs with lipstick, money-bag weilding Bush, and Sarah Palin pushing a clothes rack as you avoid the bridge to nowhere. Fun stuff.
The mayor of Batman, Turkey is suing Warner Brothers and Christoper Nolan for royalties from The Dark Knight, which “used the name of [their] city without informing” them. It only took them around 70 years to notice they were getting ripped off…
First, I need to mention that I am extremely proud to be able to see my country elect its first African-American president. I recognize this as a historic election that many people thought would never be able to happen. You done good, ‘Bama.
It would be much happier for me if he had any policies that I agreed with, though. Wealth redistribution, nationalized health care, withdrawing from Iraq on his own timetable…with Democratic control of Congress, I am extremely apprehensive about what the next four years will bring. Here’s hopin’…
Update: In the spirit of bipartisanship, Obama has selected Rahm “Republicans can go f— themselves” Emanuel as his chief of staff.
I’m feeling more and more like Iowahawk…
Yes, I’m going to use the H-word. Dadmocracy, and pretty much all my tooning except for the paying gig, will be taking a small hiatus of 2-3 weeks. However, I have some great news to go along with that: as of September, I will have a schedule change at my day job to where I will be working 4 10-hour days, Tues-Fri. On Mondays, I will have a designated chunk of time that I can actually “go to work” at my drawing table. I will be able to treat the cartooning as a job (in letter if not in spirit), and have scheduled drawing time, instead of stealing it from my sleep time as I’ve been doing for so long. As of that point I foresee regular updating with no more flakiness on my part.
In the meantime, if any of my readers who are fellow webcomickers would like to throw some guest art my way, I wouldn’t be disagreeable to posting it. I know with school starting it’s not the best time in the world, though. We’ll get through the drawing drought together, I promise…
Here’s an excerpt from a great article I read by Andrew Klavan comparing The Dark Knight to our current administration’s war on terror. Check out the piece in its entirety and my review of the movie:
“There seems to me no question that the Batman film The Dark Knight, currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.
And like W, Batman understands that there is no moral equivalence between a free society — in which people sometimes make the wrong choices — and a criminal sect bent on destruction. The former must be cherished even in its moments of folly; the latter must be hounded to the gates of Hell.
The Dark Knight, then, is a conservative movie about the war on terror. And like another such film, last year’s 300, The Dark Knight is making a fortune depicting the values and necessities that the Bush administration cannot seem to articulate for beans.
Conversely, time after time, left-wing films about the war on terror — films like In The Valley of Elah, Rendition and Redacted — which preach moral equivalence and advocate surrender, that disrespect the military and their mission, that seem unable to distinguish the difference between America and Islamo-fascism, have bombed more spectacularly than Operation Shock and Awe.”
The site is up! Doesn’t look like much, and there’s only one comic, but anyway…
Yay. Go me!
